| Fall 2006 UMASS
Amherst Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series |
Date: Friday, September 29, 2006 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Isenberg School of Management, Room 112 |
| Speaker: Dr. Robin
Lougee-Heimer IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, NY |
| Biography: Robin Lougee-Heimer is a
Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in
Yorktown Heights, New York. Her research interests include integer
programming, computational optimization, and using analytics to provide
solutions to challenging business problems. Dr. Lougee-Heimer is a
co-creator of the Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research
(COIN-OR, www.coin-or.org) -- an initiative to promote open source in
the
operations research community. She is an active member of
INFORMS, and currently serves as the INFORMS Online Associate Editor
for Practice, the Chair-Elect of the INFORMS Computing Society, and the
Program Chair for the INFORMS International Puerto Rico 2007
conference. |
| TITLE: Advanced Applications of
Operations Research at IBM |
| Abstract: Operations research techniques are widely used by IBM Research to improve the businesses of IBM and its clients. This talk will introduce the broad range of business solutions recently developed by IBM Research. Specific project examples will be described and comments on the difficulties of applying OR in practice will be shared. |
| This series is organized by the
UMASS Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter. Support for this series is
provided by the Isenberg School of Management, the Department of
Finance and Operations Management, INFORMS, and the John F. Smith
Memorial Fund. For questions, please contact the INFORMS Student Chapter Speaker Series Coordinator, Ms. Trisha Woolley, twoolley@som.umass.edu |